The difference between Calculate and Compute
When used as verbs, calculate means to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process, whereas compute means to reckon or calculate.
Compute is also noun with the meaning: computational power.
check bellow for the other definitions of Calculate and Compute
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Calculate as a verb (transitive, mathematics):
To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
Examples:
"'Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places."
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Calculate as a verb (intransitive, mathematics):
To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
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Calculate as a verb (intransitive, US, dialect):
To plan; to expect; to think.
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Calculate as a verb:
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
Examples:
"to calculate or cast one's nativity"
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Calculate as a verb:
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
Examples:
"to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people"
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Compute as a verb (transitive):
To reckon or calculate.
Examples:
"Can anyone here compute the square root of 10201?"
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Compute as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To make sense.
Examples:
"Does that compute, or do I need to explain further?"
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Compute as a noun (computing, informal):
computational power